Functional limb muscle innervation prior to cholinergic transmitter specification during early metamorphosis in Xenopus
F. M. Lambert, Laura Cardoit, Elric Courty, Marion Bougerol, Muriel Thoby‐Brisson, John Simmers, Hervé Tostivint, D. Le Ray
The paper shows that limb motoneurons in Xenopus develop functional connections with muscles before acquiring cholinergic transmitter properties, using glutamate-based synapses initially.
eLife · May 30, 2018Peer-reviewedNeuroscience